Every year, the Texas Department of Transportation records statistics on a number of subjects -- one of them being fatal automobile accidents. The state has not yet released the 2017 numbers, but the 2016 numbers show that serious or fatal car accidents happen all too often in Texas.
What do the numbers say? What is causing these accidents? What can victims or -- in the event of fatality -- their surviving family members do after the fact? Can they seek relief for their losses?